Also, “Americans wanted to go back to being one people” is interesting phrasing when the war itself was because there was a distinct group of Americans who were not accepted as a part of the people. And you exclude them even when talking about the post-war!
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Replying to @sophisticaden @jlippincott_ and
People always talk about this shit like Black Americans just don't exist so they can see the withdrawal of the occupying forces from the South and the collapse of Reconstruction as "return to normalcy" and not a great betrayal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophisticaden and
"Normalcy" jfc Think about what exactly the antebellum South considered "normal"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophisticaden and
As Lincoln himself pointed out: Southerns worshipped the same God, spoke the same lanugage, and had fought in the Revolution. He saw the war as a tragedy and as divine punishment on the South AND the North. He resisted taking vengeance. That was a better, more humane view.
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Replying to @amanofnoaccount @sophisticaden and
You're being very selective in what you quote of his Second Inauguralpic.twitter.com/LXlDxacron
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
I, too, am not particularly interested in vengeance for purely vengeance's sake If we lived in a utopia where everyone was well fed and safe and happy, digging up sins of the past to punish people for would indeed likely be gratuitous But we don't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
The priority after the war should've been the safety and prosperity of the victims of slavery and their descendants, of making whole what was brutally and viciously stolen from them It was not, and the injustice continues
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophisticaden and
It may well continue, with the riots and the uprisings and the violence in the streets people like you clutch pearls over, until all that treasure is sunk and the one lake of blood equal in size to the other, like the man said Oh well The judgments of the Lord, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophisticaden and
I don't want to turn the world into a "lake of blood." Neither should you. Wisdom and prudence may yet avert such a calamity.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @arthur_affect and
Ignoring the fact that amnesty to former confederates allowed the world — for Black Americans — to be, to use your words, “a lake of blood.”
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Yeah the point of Lincoln's speech is there was already one lake there Same with Mark Twain's quote about the French Revolution and the "short Terror" everyone calls the Terror vs the "long Terror" of the ancien regime
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophisticaden and
There's also a really broad range of possible meanings here for what's involved in extending charity towards all/malice toward none, etc.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
You can actually try the leaders of a treasonous revolt and still be acting within the bounds of 'charity;' summary executions aren't that far out of field in these situations.
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